LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

A Correction. In the list of Hastings Debt bases on Wednesday it appeared that E. McKendreJl was ordered to pay L. Cole £6 13/5 on a judgment summons. This was incorregt, as it should have been that L. Cole was ordered to pay G McKendrell £6 13/5. Motor-Car Removed. A motor-car, the property of Mr. Ldndsay Hazleton^ Napier, was removed from Dalton street, Napier, between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10.40 p.m. yesterday. Light-blue in colour, the vo hicle is a 1931 model "baby" tourer, with black hood and side curtains, valued at £90. The registered number is 55—871. Money Returned. The honesty of an old-age pensioner who found a punse containing a sum of money -in Emerson street) Napier, in September last was demonstrated to the Napier police this week, when after vainly awaiting a reply to advertisements inserted in the Press, lie handed in the purse and money intact to the police. Efforts are now being made to establish the ownership of the money. Clipper Ship Renamecu . The Clipper ship that made the survey flight from San Francisco ,t.o Auckland and back last March is now doing transport duties between Manila and Hongkongi. She has been renamed Hongkong Clipper. Since the first oi the four-engined Clippers went into service across the Caribbean Sea to the east coast of South America these flying boats have logged about 5,000,000 miles in over-ocean flying. Hongkong Clipper has been refitted to carry 28 passengers. Advertising Dobtors' Names. Unusual procedure was adopted by the Whangarei Hospital Board recently regarding the collection of outstanding fees, when it was decided that at the discretion of the board a list of ali persons against whom judguient suinmonses have been obtained should be advertised from time to time. The position of a number of people in constant employment had for some considerable time been considered unsatisfactory by the board, and the decision was an eifort to mak'e those pay their hospital accounts who were in a position to do so. Farmer and Motorist. A Te Awamutu district farmer tells of a surprising and perhaps unique happening. Ra,ther late one night he answered a telephone call and heard a strange voice inquiring if his farm was situated near a speeiiied road corner. After an assurance that it was, the voice continued: "Well, I was passing your place a couple of hours ago, hurrying to keep an important appointment here, and when my car broke down l cut a couple of lengths of wire from your front fence. Sorry to have had to do it; but please look on top of one of the posts for half-a-erown in payment. I don't want any of your stock to get out. Thanks. - Good night. Ihe l'anner said he inquired, and found that the call was from Hamilton, and early next morning he found the haltcrown on the post. Now he is busy inquiring if any other farmer has been treated as decently ,in like circumstance. The piece of wire taken was worth about sixpence.